Biography:

Ying Jin lectures on city planning, urban design, and urban modelling. He is particularly interested in understanding how technology, policy and human behaviour affect the development of cities and their infrastructure, and in using this knowledge for creating new design solutions.

His main research interests are computer models of cities, and urban history. He has extensive industry experience and directed multi-disciplinary teams in building and using computer models as experimental platforms to appraise policy scenarios that involve investment, regulation, pricing and promotional campaigns. Key projects include strategic planning of London and surrounding regions, sub-regional and local planning in the English Midlands, transport and energy scenarios for the European Union, long term city region and transport plans in China and in South America, and mapping urban poverty in emerging economies. His interests in urban history lie mainly with the European Renaissance cities and the Chinese cities since the Tang Dynasty in the 7th Century.

At the Department of Architecture Dr Jin leads the Cities and Transport research group, which is one of the world’s leading centres in the creation and use of conceptual and practical models at the city and city-region scales. These models, including its most recent alpha-version, have been applied in policy and planning studies to assess novel designs of buildings, neighbourhoods, transport and energy systems. The group’s past policy impacts were reviewed in a Cambridge University case study in REF2014 (http://results.ref.ac.uk/DownloadFile/ImpactCaseStudy/pdf?caseStudyId=23292).